Chapter 8 Psych

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Which part of the brain is responsible for the emotion-related memory formation?

Amygalda

Which part of the brain is most important in the processing of implicit memories?

Cerebellum

Which of the following refers to the processing of information into the memory system?

Encoding

Research shows which of the following does NOT improve memory

Interference

Which of the following does not enhance memories?

Massed practice

Misleading information that has corrupted one's memory of an event is called the

Misinformation effect

Memory techniques such as acronyms and the peg-word system are called

Mnemonic Devices

Studies by Loftus and Palmer, in which people were quizzed about a film of an accident, indicate that

People's recall may easily be affected by misleading information

Information is maintained in short-term memory only briefly unless it is

Rehearsed

The process of getting information out of emmory storage is called

Retrieval

Misattributing whether we heard about, read about, or imagined an event is called

Source amnesia

The tendency to recall items that appear first on a list is called

primacy effect

Research on memory construction reveals that memories

Reflect a person's biases and assumptions

The correct order of information to travel through the memory system is

Sensory> short term> long term

The ideas that cues and contexts specific to a particular memory will be effective in helping us recall it, is called

encoding specificity principle

Our short-term memory span is approximately ______ items.

7

Memory researchers are suspicous of long-repressed memories of traumatic events that are "recovered" with the aid of drugs or hypnosis because

All of the above

The inability to form new memories is called

Anterograde amnesia

Experimenters gave people a list of words to be recalled. When the participants were tested after a delay, the items that were best recalled were those

At the beginning of the list

The eerie feeling of having been somewhere before is an example of

Deja Vu


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